To:LYDIA FOTIEVA

Written:Written on July 13, 1922Published:First published in part in 1942 in the bookLenin Vladimir Ilyich. Kratky ocherkzhizni i deyatelnosti(Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Short Essay of His Life and Work), Moscow.

      Published in full in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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LydiaAlexandrovna:

Youcan congratulate me on my recovery. The proof is
my handwriting, which isbeginningto look human again.
Start preparing books for me (and sending me lists) of
1) science, 2) fiction, 3) politics (the latter last of all,
because it is not yet allowed).

Willyou complain to Rykov (Tsyurupa has left, hasn’t
he?) about all the secretaries: they are misbehaving,
suffering from malaria, etc. Let him arrange for their rest
in Riga, in Finland, near Moscow, etc. I think Rykov
should issue a reprimand to Smolyaninov and yourself for
failing to take good care of the secretaries.

Regards,Lenin